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'This was the first photograph I made for what would become my series Growing In Darkness.'

Mário Macilau
From Growing in Darkness, 2012
Archival print on cotton rag paper
'This was the first photograph I made for what would become my series Growing In Darkness. This boy was one of a group of street kids who cleaned my car...
'This was the first photograph I made for what would become my series Growing In Darkness. This boy was one of a group of street kids who cleaned my car in Mozambique, and then asked for me to take their pictures – ‘light and clean, like in a newspaper’ – when they saw my camera.'
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